Guyana boys were disappointing at the CBC Youth Championship in 1999

Guyana will play host, for the second time, the Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) Caribbean Championship U-16 championships in July. The last time the championship was held in the 83,000 square miles was in 1999. Jamaica won the boy’s title, while Suriname emerged as the female champs.

The 1999 tournament was the fourth major championship hosted by the land of many waters. The inaugural senior CARICOM Championship 1981, the seventh CARICOM Championship 1988, the 1994 Senior CARICOM Championship were also hosted here.

Kaieteur Sports and Statistician Charwayne Walker journey back seventeen years and take a look at the performance of the Guyana boys’ team led by Marvin Hartman.

Game number four: Grenada edged Guyana fifty-nine to fifty-four, Allen Date led Grenada with fourteen points, skipper Marvin Hartman had a game high fifteen points for Guyana in a losing cause. Dwayne (Brown Sugar) Roberts supported his captain with twelve points and eight rebounds.

Jamaica beat the Bahamas fifty-three to forty-eight in the finals. Kevin Young of Jamaica was voted the most valuable player of the tournament. Kevin Young top scored in the finals with twenty nine points, he also had ten rebounds and six blocked shots. For the Bahamas, Lavar Simmons, Francis Farrington and Quinton Demeritte each scored eight points.

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